The Federative Commonwealth of Ethoralia is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by President Alan Soto with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.061 billion Ethoralians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Etadena. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Ethoralian economy, worth 915 trillion Ethoralian dollars a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 180,908 Ethoralian dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks, a government program is underway to revitalize Ethoralia's beaches, parents are shocked to find out that having kids costs money, and frat-house partying has become the national pastime. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ethoralia's national animal is the Blue jay, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Church of Gaia.

Ethoralia is ranked 244,664^th in the world and 191^st in The Union of Democratic States for Most Politically Apathetic Citizens, with 5.18 Whatever.